In this, the first full-length treatment of the child in Spanish
cinema, Sarah Wright explores the ways that the cinematic child
comes to represent 'prosthetic memory'. The central theme of the
child and the monster is used to examine the relationship of the
self to the past, and to cinema. Concentrating on films from the
1950s to the present day, the book explores religious films,
musicals, 'art-house horror', science-fiction, social realism and
fantasy. It includes reference to Erice's The Spirit of The
Beehive, del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth, Manas's El Bola and the
Marisol films. The book also draws on a century of filmmaking in
Spain and intersects with recent revelations concerning the horrors
of the Spanish past. The child is a potent motif for the loss of
historical memory and for its recuperation through cinema. This
book is suitable for scholars and undergraduates working in the
areas of Spanish cinema, Spanish cultural studies and cinema
studies. -- .
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